You suck at the internet
Internet is serious business.
Via ACK, comes some whining about linking and crediting and whatnot. Yes, a blog is complaining that someone dared to draw traffic to it.
BTW, sparky, shouldn’t your post there link to the offending piece? I know these hyperlink thingies are hard for the press sometimes but that seems a bit, err, inconsistent.
Update: Grantham tackles both the hyperlink and the though questions:
How long the breadcrumb trail has to be before you are ripping off other people’s content is a very good question. Kleinheider did the right thing, but the editor of the Nashville City Paper online probably didn’t.
Links and such are an interesting thing. For instance, this morning I was doing some blogiating* and realized I had over 34 tabs open in the browser. So, by the time I had commented on something, I’d forgotten where I read it. As such, I likely didn’t credit one of the members of the breadcrumb trail. And that happens all the time.
* I think I just invented a new word.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Only 34? I’ve had over 200 tabs open for weeks at a time.
November 6th, 2009 at 2:16 am
That happens to me all the time.
Actually, I’ve probably inadvertently ripped you off more than once – I didn’t have my readers up to speed for a while, and The Inconvenience would email me three or four things of interest every day. It took me a while to catch on that he was sending me all the Uncle highlights. 🙂
Anyway, I have a slight, um, *problem* with tabs, myself, so I too am guilty of losing track.